ugly quotes

• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. (Thomas Hardy) [ugly]
• I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones. (Sophia Loren) [ugly/strange/eyes]
• The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. (James Baldwin) [price/knowledge/ugly]
• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. (William Blake) [prudence/ugly]
• There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. (Elias Canetti) [thing/ugly/language/language]
• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. (Miguel De Cervantes) [think/ugly]
• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [women/ugly/state/beauty]
• What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. (Marcus Cicero) [ugly]
• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. (George Eliot) [look/ugly/people/fortune]
• Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [wealth/ugly]
• Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. (Benjamin Franklin) [ugly]
• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. (Andre Gide) [ugly/development]
• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Eric Hoffer) [evil/ugly/emptiness/thing]
• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance. (William James) [attitude/ugly/more/matter]
• The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [ugly/find/ugly]
• Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [ugly/danger/loss/ugly]
• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. (William Shakespeare) [ugly]
• The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. (Frank Sinatra) [ugly/form/misfortune]
• The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. (Oscar Wilde) [ugly/knowledge/defeat]
• In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. (Oscar Wilde) [ugly/age/life]
• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. (Oscar Wilde) [ugly]
• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. (Oscar Wilde) [ugly]
• Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. (Drew Barrymore) [ugly]
• When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? (Anna Kournikova) [theatre/look/ugly]
• I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too. (Britney Spears) [wish/wish/ugly/wish]
• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes. (Ian McKellen) [actors/ugly/film/television]
• “the ugly dark one.” (Eva Longoria) [ugly]
• The media paint ugly pictures about you. (Kim Basinger) [ugly]
• I was never competitive with the other girls; it's self-defeating and makes you look ugly. (Lauren Hutton) [girls/look/ugly]
• “Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.” (Sharon Tate) [flower/ugly/bird]
• “If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.” (Winona Ryder) [ugly]

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